hash(text) function inside db?

From: Michael Adler <adler(at)glimpser(dot)org>
To: postgres list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: hash(text) function inside db?
Date: 2002-07-10 19:38:49
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.44.0207101525590.844-100000@reva.sixgirls.org
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I'd like to be able to get a hash (e.g. md5) of a text datatype inside the
database. It looks like this is not included in the default installation.

Has anyone rolled one of these? "Weak" checksum algorithms (e.g. crypt)
would work, too.

Mike

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